Connection
Lena Horne is a Actor American born on 30 june 1917 at New York City (USA)
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Because of the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Her career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television and on broadway.
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and she then toured the country in, which earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000.
Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, who was Music Director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris. They separated in the early 1960s, but never divorced; he died in 1971.
In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple. She later admitted in an interview in Ebony (May 1980), she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the "color-line" in show business.
Horne also had a long and close relationship with Billy Strayhorn, whom she said she would have married if he had been heterosexual. He was also an important professional mentor to her.
Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne's daughter Gail. Her other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's three children, Thomas, William, and Lena. Her great-grandchildren include the actor Jake Cannavale.
Source : Wikidata
Lena Horne
Birth name Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
Nationality USA
Birth 30 june 1917 at New York City (USA)
Death 9 may 2010 (at 92 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Nationality USA
Birth 30 june 1917 at New York City (USA)
Death 9 may 2010 (at 92 years) at New York City (USA)
Awards Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the films Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. Because of the Red Scare and her left-leaning political views, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood. Her career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television and on broadway.
Returning to her roots as a nightclub performer, Horne took part in the March on Washington in August 1963, and continued to work as a performer, both in nightclubs and on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than three hundred performances on Broadway and she then toured the country in, which earned her numerous awards and accolades. She continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, disappearing from the public eye in 2000.
Biography
Horne married Louis Jordan Jones in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born there. They had a son, Edwin Jones (born February 7, 1940 – September 12, 1970) who died of kidney disease. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944.Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, who was Music Director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris. They separated in the early 1960s, but never divorced; he died in 1971.
In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple. She later admitted in an interview in Ebony (May 1980), she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the "color-line" in show business.
Horne also had a long and close relationship with Billy Strayhorn, whom she said she would have married if he had been heterosexual. He was also an important professional mentor to her.
Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne's daughter Gail. Her other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's three children, Thomas, William, and Lena. Her great-grandchildren include the actor Jake Cannavale.
Usually with
Filmography of Lena Horne (23 films)
| Year | Name | Job | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Strange Frame: Love & Sax | Actress | Ethel Andrews (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Bride Wars | Actress | |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | Actress | Self - Co-Host / Narrator |
| 1978 | The Wiz | Actress | Glinda the Good |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II | Actress | (archive footage) |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! | Actress | (archive footage) |
| 1969 | Death of a Gunfighter | Actress | Claire Quintana |
| 1956 | Meet Me in Las Vegas | Actress | Lena Horne |
| 1950 | Duchess of Idaho | Actress | Lena Horne |
| 1948 | Words and Music | Actress | Lena Horne |
| 1946 | Till the Clouds Roll By | Actress | Julie LaVerne / Lena Horne |
| 1946 | Ziegfeld Follies | Actress | Lena Horne |
| 1944 | Two Girls and a Sailor | Actress | Specialty |
| 1944 | Boogie-Woogie Dream | Actress | |
| 1944 | Broadway Rhythm | Actress | Fernway de la Fer |
| 1943 | I Dood It | Actress | Herself |
| 1943 | Thousands Cheer | Actress | Lena Horne |
| 1943 | Cabin in the Sky | Actress | Georgia Brown |
| 1943 | Stormy Weather | Actress | Selina Rogers |
| 1943 | Swing Fever | Actress | Herself |
| 1942 | Panama Hattie | Actress | As self, Singer in Phil's Place (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Duke Is Tops | Actress | Ethel Andrews |
| 1935 | Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party | Actress |